That is very interesting about the war! I know a lot of the medical detail in Broster's injury and hurt/comfort scenes comes from her experience of nursing, but I hadn't considered the wider thematic angle, dislocation and post-war (un)certainty and so on. I think one could write some very interesting meta on her portrayal of the disruption and ruin of Highland society during and after the '45 in Flight of the Heron and Gleam in the North and her own experiences of the effects of World War I.